After the earth settled down through storms, volcanoes and ice ages, we are left what we have today with unique and strange animals and plants in bio-diverse hotspots of the ancient forests down the east coast of Australia. One of these, The New England Group is in my back yard, just a couple of hours away near Armidale NSW and there is plenty of spectacular land forms to explore through these amazing forests.

Head north from Manilla across the Namoi River turn off onto the Fossickers Way. The first 15km is a narrow sealed road wandering past hobby farms and old buildings, as soon as you hit the dirt the farms grow in size to huge pastoral stations and crop growing areas beside the Namoi River, you’ll soon go over the Nandewar Ranges, which was first seen back in 1818 by explorer John Oxley. There are several turns towards Warrabah, but these are well sign posted.

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Woolgoolgaoffroad and waterfalls

Woolgoolgaoffroad and Outback Armour

One of the areas that I’ve spent time at has been at the old township of Beacon at the base of Mt Coramba. There is little information about this place and even less signs of any civilisation there. But get this for a fact - there used to be up to 4 times more people here than what there was in Coffs Harbour !. You go there now and the bush has taken over this once thriving place. There were stores, police station, a doctors house, dance-dance - rec hall, a pub, a playing fie

Exploring the Old Glen Innes Road, with old gold towns, mines and a so called convict tunnel.

I can’t believe its taken us over 30 years to actually get to K’gari Island to discover its inner beauty and explore the islands amazing history and stunning scenery. Realistically, I think I’ve been avoiding the island because I thought there would be massive crowds and a lot of sand recoveries across the island, but boy was I wrong.

This place is regarded as the oldest place on earth with rich deep red rock formations where the rock is so old that there are no fossil remains left in the rock. Welcome to the epic Pilbara region. It’s thought that the name Pilbara is an Aboriginal name for a Mullet that’s found in a creek off the Yule River.

The landscape dates back an incredible 4.5 billion years making it one of the oldest on earth, where unique and ancient formations have created massive geological displays across the Murchison region. Combine this with meteorite strikes, thousands of years of human history with more than 20 culturally significant sites I just had to head to the area.

Woolgoolgaoffroad exploring Maytown and the Palmer River goldfields

Woolgoolgaoffroad explores Kalumburu

Woolgoolgaoffroad on the Duncan Road

Woolgoolgaoffroad doing the Karunjie Track

Woolgoolgaoffroad at Judbarra

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